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Haiku #1

the flesh of the fish
that moist, pink, succulent meat
becons me coyly

-soren

Haiku #2

a man depriv'd of
enemies becomes a thing
bereft of purpose

-soren

Haiku #3

emptiness, the void
desiring to be full, of
longing overflows

-soren

Haiku #4

that, which having been,
though time and tide obscure all,
cannot be undone

-soren

Haiku #5

one's concept of self
blindly accepted as so
must not be sounded

-soren

Haiku #6

pretentious haiku
profound dwells at the finding
denied those who seek

-soren

Haiku #7

to believe is choice
incredulity prudence
oness personal

-soren

Haiku #8

pajama gram is
victoria's secret for
for repressed people

-soren

Haiku #9

knowledge leaves a mark
the known as a catalyst
affects he who knows

-soren

Haiku #10

four lines in eight parts
divide equally the whole
many eat the pie

-soren

Haiku #11

echos, memories,
monuments, and scars: human
detritus deceives

-soren

Haiku #12

man is made of meat
quicken'd of fear and desire
best by them not rul'd

-soren

Haiku #13

cannibalism
is truimph of id over
the superego

-soren

Haiku #14

lasting, must be spent
to watch so much pass it by
but still to linger

-soren

Haiku #15

haiku requires that
inspiration i find my
apathy dispells

-soren

Haiku #16

let's all have a call
wherein we can multitask:
doing less with more!

-soren

Haiku #17

the only thing one
can posess is time, alas
for time is fleeting

-soren

Haiku #18

those who will not do
with their hands' minds will never
grasp what must be done

-soren

Haiku #19

observe, imagine,
conceive, plan, build, review, and
finally accept

-soren

Haiku #20

to do is to be
for having been i have done
but meaning eludes

-soren

Haiku #21

the moments when one
thinks one is completely fuck'd
give one's life the lie

-soren

Haiku #22

thoughts require no time;
thinking's the space between thoughts;
bliss nothing at all

-soren

Haiku #23

contemplation is
the root of desire, therefore
the cause of sorrow

-soren

Haiku #24

mindless toil deafens
those with industrious souls
to the hammer-song

-soren

Haiku #25

an act of worship
intended as conference
on one's self bestows

-soren

Haiku #26

effluvium red
purple's own prerogative
'neath firmament blue

-soren

Haiku #27

need makes imperfect;
by creating; perfection
is oblivion

-soren

Haiku #28

dawn, in breaking night
does not end her reveries,
he seals them sacred

-soren

Haiku #29

pierce the veil and you
find another awaits: from
unknown to unknown

-soren

Haiku #30

take the frontal lobes
they only cause me problems
leave me some pudding

-soren

Haiku #31

consume i consume
i consume i consume i
consume i consume

-soren

Haiku #32

eventually
i learn'd: understanding is
a change in the meat

-soren

Haiku #33

what is here to be?
still? the horror is that you
always will have been

-soren

Haiku #34

giving excessive
attention to how one feels
prevents contentment

-soren

Haiku #35

does the squirrel think
hoarding for winter's prudent
or just know to do

-soren

Haiku #36

ev'ry thing i know
and all i hold dear are vast
simplifications

-soren

Haiku #37

give all the water
you like to a drowning man
it will not save him

-soren

Haiku #38

needing is needful
without need there is no must
for must needs needing

-soren

Haiku #39

expecting too much
is not the same mistake as
asking too little

-soren

Haiku #40

fearsome lusty sea
writhing from confinement is
the water of life

-soren

Haiku #41

at sanity's edge
most turn back, some press on, and
a rare few break ground

-soren

Haiku #42

that, which in the end
remains, demonstrates for us
all the could have been

-soren

Haiku #43

in the amoeba
is apparent all of life's
continuity

-soren

Haiku #44

certainty becomes
a bastard, denying he
is the son of cause

-soren

Haiku #45

there is a moment
crystalline, unknowable
that it comes to be

-soren

Haiku #46

verdant, succulent
fauna: ardently vital
of being artless

-soren

Haiku #47

to make, grow, or fix
are the roots of all that is
honorable work

-soren

Haiku #48

once there was a time
and come what may, which will be,
that time is over

-soren

Haiku #49

without the doing
the illusion of purpose
starts to dissipate

-soren

Haiku #50

if life is dinner
don't let it be a hot dog
it should be tapas

-soren

Haiku #51

seeing all the parts
in a vista all at once;
the see'r must be god

-soren

Haiku #52

those trees that bend best
best resist winds: strength is in
rebound not hardness

-soren

Haiku #53

a lion's regal
bearing and power do not
create it noble

-soren

Haiku #54

giving is ruling
receiving accepts that rule
boon playing boson

-soren

Haiku #55

life exists between
the unravelling edge and
annihilation

-soren

Haiku #56

if i come to know
the purpose for which i am
i must cease to be

-soren

Haiku #57

love is not what one
says or feels or hopes, but what
one chooses to do

-soren

Haiku #58

people cling to life
not out of love, but because
they are used to it

-soren

Haiku #59

on the threshold of
destruction all things fulfill
the urge that spawned them

-soren

Haiku #60

the gossamer thing
that straining sees is not made
more true by longing

-soren

Haiku #61

the continuum
fades; cascading failure will
refresh the needful

-soren

Haiku #62

embrace life as a
new lover and her sister,
death, as an old friend

-soren

Haiku #63

i forgot the words
to convey rumination
by way of haiku

-soren

Haiku #64

stand, and be counted
for your measure will be made
standing or kneeling

-soren

Haiku #65

young men think honor
lives in glorious moments
old men know better

-soren

Haiku #66

no matter the scale
the void fills with being and
being longs for more

-soren

Haiku #67

during the green hour
when whispers can overwhelm
time has no meaning

-soren

Haiku #68

you may form the world
by your strength of will but not
as a catalyst

-soren

Haiku #69

we are made in strife;
bourne through it, refin'd by it,
and it is our doom

-soren

Haiku #70

government is god's
gift to man for what almost
happen'd at babel

-soren

Haiku #71

honest toil deserves
respect and is an honor
no title commands

-soren

Haiku #72

wisdom can be found
in anything if you take
the time to see it

-soren

Haiku #73

as one is the thread
and the spinner so all are
both cloth and weaver

-soren

Haiku #74

through rushes and calms
being surges ever on
uninterrupted

-soren

Haiku #75

being fills its cups
to the measure and the depth
that living provides

-soren

Haiku #76

to set the words down
offends the muse; permanence
cannot be inspired

-soren

Haiku #77

a man is not whole
but being form'd incomplete
knows not how to be

-soren

Haiku #78

sanity is the
greatest coincidence of
our insanity

-soren

Haiku #79

spin too many plates
on too many sticks and learn
how to use a broom

-soren

Haiku #80

lighten up and do
the doing is more honest
than thoughts in the void

-soren

Haiku #81

the fuel comes and goes
the spark is even more brief
the piston remains

-soren

Haiku #82

until i grant your
assumptions, your logic is
immaterial

-soren

Haiku #83

imagine a day
with its glory or despair
today is that day

-soren

Haiku #84

having, from making
as abomination clears
the joy from doing

-soren

Haiku #85

for hammers to fall
and form the world once again
they must be lifted

-soren

Haiku #86

the rhythm of life
belies continuity
not one, but many

-soren

Haiku #87

salmon swim upstream
admirably defiant
still, they end up dead

-soren

Haiku #88

mitochondria
make complex life possible
but, what do they want

-soren

Haiku #89

truth only affects
the function of the results
not the decisions

-soren

Haiku #90

objectivity
is only systematic
subjectivity

-soren

Haiku #91

well, there was something
i thought it was important
i can't remember

-soren

Haiku #92

all men are vassal
as chosen, so beholden
freedom is binding

-soren

Haiku #93

the meaning eludes
but the importance is known
we must meet to talk

-soren

Haiku #94

where ever i am
i am not ev'rywhere else
one is mostly not

-soren

Haiku #95

work is investment
a job builds no equity
so the west will fail

-soren

Haiku #96

the time is finite
but the journey otherwise
so, damn the engines

-soren

Haiku #97

with no teeth, a gear
like a tiger, has only
one utility

-soren

Haiku #98

success is achiev'd
through the accretion of one's
incomplete failures

-soren

Haiku #99

with dedication
and purity of purpose
one becomes mighty

-soren

Haiku #100

autodidactic
sesquipedalianism
perforce defines us

-soren

Haiku #101

sleep comes, for dreams must
subject reality to
the rule of Sobek

-soren

Haiku #102

the mind of god is
ev'ry possible event
this is but one such

-soren

Haiku #103

oh, captain red-shirt
how is it you spend yourself
choose or dissipate

-soren

Haiku #104

stretch a man enough
and his ego becomes clear
so that he can see

-soren

Haiku #105

stop light by proxy
acquires authority from
brake light's promise kept

-soren

Haiku #106

we, as i, speak of
my concept of us as though
edges make us one

-soren

Haiku #107

do not seek surety
no solace has certainty
save oblivion

-soren

Haiku #108

man is an iceberg
in the light and in shadow
forever melting

-soren

Haiku #109

things must be broken
to know their strength: let us hope
we prove strong enough

-soren

Haiku #110

breathe become hollow
emptiness yearns to be full
allow for nothing

-soren

Haiku #111

when the void is pure
the stillness a sacred place
enter and abide

-soren

Haiku #112

there to be master
holding the horrors at bay
wrest them to the grave

-soren

Haiku #113

sentience forgets
to live, infinitively
thinking of thinking

-soren

Haiku #114

oh prandial joy
carbohydrates declare it
let there be pastry

-soren

Haiku #115

pray, do not confuse
the turning one might want with
that which one must choose

-soren

Haiku #116

thankless, the ninja
is only remembered
when something goes wrong?

-soren

Haiku #117

craven hoplophobe
no proclamation serves to
diminish your shame

-soren

Haiku #118

neither ways nor means
suffice for freedom, only
the mast'ry of fear

-soren

Haiku #119

no more the sentence
well-crafted or otherwise
kill'd by bullet points

-soren

Haiku #120

the most noble deed
earns no honor, sacrifice
by nature is mute

-soren

Haiku #121

argentine iron
newly smelted and ductile
is full of promise

-soren

Haiku #122

this chain of events
extends through the horizons
ending only now

-soren

Haiku #123

death compels us all
none have mastery of it
life merely beckons

-soren

Haiku #124

i saw them speaking
the space betwixt pregnant with
singularity

-soren

Haiku #125

within the lattice
the data forces itself
between all the points

-soren

Haiku #126

gravity defies
all attempts to integrate
universal force

-soren

Haiku #127

damocles' blade looms
in endless iterations
it falls only once

-soren

Haiku #128

i have come to fear
that the songs good to sing are
no so good to hear

-soren

Haiku #129

depreciate cause
for it is impertinent
accept the effect

-soren

Haiku #130

no haiku this week
too many things to process
but wait, what is this?

-soren

Haiku #131

i see the faces
but must remember also
to perceive the hands

-soren

Haiku #132

when there is no time
and poor work begets more work
then there is no time

-soren

Haiku #133

sans joie de vivre
la contrainte pour survivre
la seule chose qui reste

-soren

Haiku #134

living for something
is a nobler sacrifice
than dying for it

-soren

Haiku #135

copacetic chimp
capering confidently
cannot comprehend

-soren

Haiku #136

between opposites
and near to oblivion
lies something like peace

-soren

Haiku #137

is there nothing left?
or do i desire it so?
why does it vex me?

-soren

Haiku #138

where waves coincide
their urging becomes demand
who then can prevail?

-soren

Haiku #139

measuring wisdom
is divining the prism
of the objective

-soren

Haiku #140

glory is purpose
refin'd to a single point
in execution

-soren

Haiku #141

float on the ether
while away whilst marching on
renew'd perspective

-soren

Haiku #142

name no more heroes
nor decry any villain
treat with each as met

-soren

Haiku #143

why is it for me
to acquire all those duties
cast off in neglect?

-soren

Haiku #144

that i must not do
does not per force require that
i should not have done

-soren

Haiku #145

from forgetfulness
the heart of longing espies
the id ascendant

-soren

Haiku #146

wo Ãœbermenschen
nicht von den Göttern Befehl
es kommt aus dem Selbst

-soren

Haiku #147

anger unblemish’d
a fire without inclusion
is cold fear at heart

-soren

Haiku #148

water finds its place
with the vessel transcended
it remains the same

-soren

Haiku #149

sanguine victory
separates paying the price
from counting the cost

-soren

Haiku #150

fine composition
makes good on its promise but
not as expected

-soren

Haiku #151

purpose fulfill'd
is a beauty to witness
effort vouchsafed

-soren

Haiku #152

precious molecules
cascading chemistry calls
compelling the free

-soren

Haiku #153

whatever you do
remember to never stop
at top dead center

-soren

Haiku #154

sea shells bear witness
even when nothing is left
still something remains

-soren

Haiku #155

classing the subsets
cross-referencing the known
allows abstract thought

-soren

Haiku #156

once i was a child
memories are photographs
but of someone else

-soren

Haiku #157

sad is perception
from interpretation not
reflective of state

-soren

Haiku #158

for just a moment
the waves were coincident
need gave way to calm

-soren

Haiku #159

as it grows colder
boots that usually squish
clop in their resolve

-soren

Haiku #160

betrayal means trust
doubly painful because it
impugns one's judgment

-soren

Haiku #161

truth does not matter
this moment's perception is
the only real thing

-soren

Haiku #162

once one comprehends
the mechanics of the loom
the weave becomes choice

-soren

Haiku #163

it is always wise
to understand one's own fear
not so to face it

-soren

Haiku #164

reality is
in light of certain patterns
most improbable

-soren

Haiku #165

elegant design
interoperable and
unilinear

-soren

Haiku #166

freedom is needed
so one may find one's virtue
not one's happiness

-soren

Haiku #167

words are air, mixing
images are light, and light
changes with the times

-soren

Haiku #168

man is a river
he goes where he is going
but is where he's been

-soren

Haiku #169

in order to solve
first one must accept what is
know the attributes

-soren

Haiku #170

one is an aspect
information is unique
matter's transition

-soren

Haiku #171

i enter budgets
but they will not reconcile
it causes the angst

-soren

Haiku #172

within a moment
of careful contemplation
a cosmos flowers

-soren

Haiku #173

philosopher king
is very different from
king philosopher

-soren

Haiku #174

tell me a story
speak a world into being
there you are a god

-soren

Haiku #175

iron gives its all
all that which it was given
always, without fail

-soren

Haiku #176

at the most holy
priests, altars, and offerings
cease to be distinct

-soren

Haiku #177

for men to be peers
they must form a brotherhood
sharing common cause

-soren

Haiku #178

beauty, as the storm
looks like sky rent by chaos
yet smells like order

-soren

Haiku #179

prey may give its life
the predator, in return
gives that life meaning

-soren

Haiku #180

sublime in thinness
force of being may become
awful in focus

-soren

Haiku #181

it is what it is
conversely one considers
it is that it is

-soren

Haiku #182

pain is of the mind
fatigue is in the body
man exists between

-soren

Haiku #183

oh telemetry
do not deny me your voice
nor coy whisperings

-soren

Haiku #184

sawyers ply their saws
to such ends that there are planks
what from lawyers' ply?

-soren

Haiku #185

embrace life's labors
they add salt to living and
sweetness to leisure

-soren

Haiku #186

love surveys itself
yet it beholds another
and self becomes means

-soren

Haiku #187

no drop of water
is possess'd of destiny
yet the tide shall change

-soren

Haiku #188

there is no control
one's influence conditions
only likelihood

-soren

Haiku #189

seeking is the joy
finding, like having, is but
a necessity

-soren

Haiku #190

i choose to believe
that mankind shall achieve grace
and therein purpose

-soren

Haiku #191

my mistakes provide
a space to define myself
if i can grasp it

-soren

Haiku #192

death is the payment
not for having liv'd a life
but for life to be

-soren

Haiku #193

i can know my worth
only by my impact on
that which i value

-soren

Haiku #194

the water, it knows
being there from end to end
but feeling nothing

-soren

Haiku #195

possibility
in certain uncertainty
can not may is must

-soren

Haiku #196

say, lonesome road cone
abandon'd at the shoulder
how come you to this

-soren

Haiku #197

i am now a shell
a remnant of those things that
I thought I might be

-soren

Haiku #198

the ache in waiting
at the edge of suspicion
is like awe at dawn

-soren

Haiku #199

curiosity
as I am told, kill'd the cat
but it makes the man

-soren

Haiku #200

air is a puzzle
yielding both calm and livid
always prevailing

-soren

Haiku #201

who, like a wave's peak
beholding the land must crest
forgetting the sea

-soren

Haiku #202

symbols and numbers
immiscible fluids swirl
broth cognition's soup

-soren

Haiku #203

anthropomorphic
eviscerated squashes
waylay fear with flesh

-soren

Haiku #204

stone at land's end knows
victory in each moment
even in defeat

-soren

Haiku #205

one cannot win but
one can lose in newly found
interesting ways

-soren

Haiku #206

one must not value
the rule higher than the need
that brought it about

-soren

Haiku #207

contemplate clockwork's
admirable elegance
a loss to be mourn'd

-soren

Haiku #208

time in mind is space
needful for improving one's
concentricity

-soren

Haiku #209

walmart teaches me
sometimes about others but
mostly about me

-soren

Haiku #210

my enemy is
but an avatar for my
self i will not see

-soren

Haiku #211

load equalizes
sufficient incompetence
taints all those involv'd

-soren

Haiku #212

when i think of them
i build a wall; forgetting
they are us to them

-soren

Haiku #213

the wise are aware
the blessed undisturb'd yet
all are lost at sea

-soren

Haiku #214

absolute fineness
is often valued over
the love in the craft

-soren

Haiku #215

whilst i have my thoughts
perhaps instead the truth is
that my thoughts have me

-soren

Haiku #216

that which i behold
becomes all that there is, still
so much is hidden

-soren

Haiku #217

the vanishing point
of meaning and artifice
has always been faith

-soren

Haiku #218

thus far, it appears,
i have perceiv'd little and
comprehended less

-soren

Haiku #219

some things, i have seen
in immutable cosmos
i have caus'd to be

-soren

Haiku #220

epicurean
endeavors must in time yield
to stoicism

-soren

Haiku #221

people can believe
without cause, despite reason
with perfect purpose

-soren

Haiku #222

one can be convinc'd
mov'd, believe; so to master
born fear and desire

-soren

Haiku #223

brav'ry is the choice
'txixt unbearable losses
made in the mettle

-soren

Haiku #224

all amazement lies
beyond imagination
waiting for a choice

-soren

Haiku #225

why does it matter?
see in this moment, the next
now is forever

-soren

Haiku #226

one becomes adult
by learning to serve a goal
one can never see

-soren

Haiku #227

seeking to die well
one might find that one lives well
incidentally

-soren

Haiku #228

who is happiest
one that has what he wants or
one without desire

-soren

Haiku #229

with every choice
one's options are winnow'd down
until there are none

-soren

Haiku #230

that which is most sought
to become reality
cannot be the goal

-soren

Haiku #231

kindness is selfish
and selfishness is not kind
but what do i learn

-soren

Haiku #232

like surface ripples
the remains of our lives are
wakes in the cosmos

-soren

Haiku #233

struggles long waiting
chrysalis rouses at last
to dreams on the wing

-soren

Haiku #234

what would i purchase
out of all that i might want
if it cost my life

-soren

Haiku #235

each choice has a cost
and all things have their value
but price is neither

-soren

Haiku #236

lightning is the sky
venting its anxiety
back on to the earth

-soren

Haiku #237

building a process
streamlin’d, simple, and precise
opens a new way

-soren